Kerry Bishe Quotes

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

I'm always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That's how I measure the success of any artistic endeavor.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.